Maine State Senator Peter Bowman (D-Kittery) has introduced LD 547, which improves the write-in process. It requires that the list of declared write-in candidates be posted at each polling place. It deletes the requirement that the voter write-in not only the name of the candidate, but the name of the town that the candidate lives in. It also directs the Secretary of State to include the list of declared write-in candidates on the webpage of the state Elections Division.

This bill was initiated by Herb Hoffman, independent candidate for U.S. Senate in 2008 who was unjustly kept off the ballot and who then had to contend with poor government policies for write-in campaigns.